The next part of the Comprehensive General Guide covers the competitions and league structures that your team will play in. This is, of course, the main part of any football game as it shapes what you can do in the rest of the game. But whilst it is the core area there really is a limited amount that can be said on it given the information stated in the guide.
As you would expect each gameworld has a variety of different FA's covering different styles of playing the game (such as activity level and time zones) as well as competitions that welcome teams from the entire gameworld. The FA's will have both leagues (of between 18-24 teams) and cups for the members to partake in with seasons lasting 28 days. The 28 days consists of 2 periods of 11 day halves of the season (separated by a 1 day "winter break") and a 5 day off season. As for promotions and relegations it is expected that 3 teams will be promoted (2 automatic and 1 play off) with 3 teams also being relegated. Managers can expect a Champions League equivalent to be present should they be winning the highest division in their FA. Other than this there really is very little else to say, at this point.
One feature that should excite many users is the plans for an inbuilt international team feature. It is a feature that never made it fully into FML sadly, only existing through the hard work of many organisers and moderators using their initiative to get around the games limitations. In UFL managers will have to bid using special credits (which will be highlighted in the next blog post) to bid for the nation they wish to manage in the World Cup tournament. Making things even more interesting is that you can only make one bid for one nation and you cannot see what your fellow managers have bid. Should your one bid fail you get entered into a completely random draw for a nation that has not been bid for. Although there is a possibility that you can miss out altogether which may well irk some managers (but with a finite numbers of nations it is a feature that cannot possibly be available to all managers at the same time). The one bid only mechanism might be unpopular with some but gets around the problem of users winning numerous nations, although the next higher bidder without a winning bid could be used instead as a potential solution.
Arguably the piece de resistance is going to be the cross gameworld competitions where the best teams from across the varying gameworlds get together to find out who really is the best of the best. Although these mathces will take place in an interim GW which may mean that the other general users cannot watch the matches which would be particularly disappointing. At this point it appears that there are only plans for inter GW competitions for the best teams which again may disappoint teams from further down the football league (like my team will be no doubt) but hopefully this can change as the game develops.
So this concludes the next chapter and this blog post. The league and FA structure is more or less the same as in FML and follows on closely from what we see in reality. The introduction of internationals and inter GW competitions should spice things up even more and certainly adds another few strings to the UFL bow that FML didn't have.
As you would expect each gameworld has a variety of different FA's covering different styles of playing the game (such as activity level and time zones) as well as competitions that welcome teams from the entire gameworld. The FA's will have both leagues (of between 18-24 teams) and cups for the members to partake in with seasons lasting 28 days. The 28 days consists of 2 periods of 11 day halves of the season (separated by a 1 day "winter break") and a 5 day off season. As for promotions and relegations it is expected that 3 teams will be promoted (2 automatic and 1 play off) with 3 teams also being relegated. Managers can expect a Champions League equivalent to be present should they be winning the highest division in their FA. Other than this there really is very little else to say, at this point.
One feature that should excite many users is the plans for an inbuilt international team feature. It is a feature that never made it fully into FML sadly, only existing through the hard work of many organisers and moderators using their initiative to get around the games limitations. In UFL managers will have to bid using special credits (which will be highlighted in the next blog post) to bid for the nation they wish to manage in the World Cup tournament. Making things even more interesting is that you can only make one bid for one nation and you cannot see what your fellow managers have bid. Should your one bid fail you get entered into a completely random draw for a nation that has not been bid for. Although there is a possibility that you can miss out altogether which may well irk some managers (but with a finite numbers of nations it is a feature that cannot possibly be available to all managers at the same time). The one bid only mechanism might be unpopular with some but gets around the problem of users winning numerous nations, although the next higher bidder without a winning bid could be used instead as a potential solution.
Arguably the piece de resistance is going to be the cross gameworld competitions where the best teams from across the varying gameworlds get together to find out who really is the best of the best. Although these mathces will take place in an interim GW which may mean that the other general users cannot watch the matches which would be particularly disappointing. At this point it appears that there are only plans for inter GW competitions for the best teams which again may disappoint teams from further down the football league (like my team will be no doubt) but hopefully this can change as the game develops.
So this concludes the next chapter and this blog post. The league and FA structure is more or less the same as in FML and follows on closely from what we see in reality. The introduction of internationals and inter GW competitions should spice things up even more and certainly adds another few strings to the UFL bow that FML didn't have.
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